Apparatus for the manufacture of packing-pads.



PATENTED MAY 12, 1908.

i No. 887,250.

. H." HAYSSBN. APPARATUS FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF PACKING PADS.

APPLICATION FILED JAN.11,1905. 10 SHEETS-SHEET 1.

PATENTED'MAY 12,-1908.

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H. HAYSSEN. APPARATUS FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF P AGKI APPLICATION FILED JAN.11,1906.

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No. 887,250. PATENTED MAY 12, 1908 H. HAYSSEN.

APPARATUS FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF PACKING PADS.

APPLICATION PIL'ED J .11 1 05.

AN 1o SHEETS-SHEET s.

PATENT'Eb MAY 12, 1008.

No. 887,250; I

v I H. HAYSSBN. APPARATUS FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF PACKING PAIR APPLICATION FILED JAN.11,1905.

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APPLICATION FIL ED JAN.11,1905.

10 SHEETS-SHEET 6" No. 887,250. PATENTED MAY 12, 1908. H. HAYSSEN.

APPARATUSPOR THE MANUFACTURE OF PACKING PADS.

APPLICATION FILED JAN.11,1905.

10 SHEETS-SHEET I.

No. 887,250. PATENTED MAY 12, 1908 H. HAYSSEN.

APPARATUS FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF PACKING PADS.

APPLICATION FILED JAN.11,1905.

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No. 887,250 PATENTED MAY 12, 1908. H. HAYSSEN. APPARATUS FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF PACKING PADS.

APPLICATION FILED JAN.11,11905.

, l0 SHEETS-SHEET l0v M m M HERMAN iLxYSSEN,

OF SHE BUYGAN WISCOLISZI CURL implication filed January 11 19015.

' 31M HAIseEN of Shehoygan, in the county oi Sl'ieboygan and State of Wisconsin, have invented 2i new and useful Improvement in Apparatus for the Manui'aetufe of Packing-Pads, of which the foihuving is specification.

This invention. relates to apparatus or moi-- chines for use in the mariuhietuie of pa is or weapons for packing purposes.

Pa, or )HQPPGTS for peeking purposes, eons oi easing or A kei. filled with exceisu "fibrous unite/rm sue? as 1' 01' Sii'l'liid marsh hey 01' ---1uoss, have, Wifllifl the last h-w eoine iuivo wide use,' and one form of "(he some, eonimouiy known as an excelsioi' hoti Wrapper, (rou h-Ls of two conc ntrically arranged. evhiui'nen] eases or on ops having 2L iayer oi the h'oi'ous ittlifll 1i terposed there between, while the other known an exceisior peeking pad, and eonsists (ii {in open emleo' ease or jacket filled O1 stufl'ed with the fibrous metei'iei. The botiie wrappers are phu'ed over and around the bottles packed, and form :1 yielding jacket. The pads are u (1 i0! various purposes, and probably most widely for peeking furniture. From the uses to whieh tiiiesewrzippers and pads are put. it is neeessm'yjhm the cost of n onui'eeiure is brought down to the lowest possible point, and one object of this inventime has been to pz'oduce an apparatus 01' umchino L or wrappers,

o means of woieh iv above ouahneii, may be eosiiy and reel h n'muumci'ured at low cost.

to pi oduee :1 simple mac produciion of such pads in wine 1 Mi oi he pmte thereof are reaiiiiy zuee sible; a machine which autonomic, as hereinafter h2seribeijl, and which may be quickly and readily started 21TH! StODPGii.

A stili i'uiz'h ei object of this invention has been to produce a i'uachine or apparatus which may be utilized for the manufacture of sueh pads 01' Toppers of different Widths and hangths.

These nd other objects, whiei'i will read.-

appear to one skiiie i in thee-rt to which. attain by means f specification.

the aapa-i'atus described in. the

and i ustrated in the drawings.

The apparatus or Ina-L- Ane may be dria on.

from any suitable source of power at the do Specification of Letters; IEate-nt.

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1 eeii, amii xvii obie 11s with exee uu mnei in QifmfltitiQS substantially ioutinuous operzu exeehsioi by menus not shown end 2.101 form ing a pan of this invention, conveyed "we the mouth of the nm-i-hiue end posses eh re u i portion ti'ieieof wherein it is picked and eoiit inuoueiy fed in graded e11 qu emit v out of po Whieh fem strip of pipe- 1am; piekeii erqeeisior, end of he over 0112 [we is edges pa is out o l Ami" th into suit o a comiuuoiei iumehiue, e. the too of i: e c

u or u' outlet bod Z oh device iutou Q When wide pais iiiteotu'i'ed, or when it ie deeii' ie hir -euuueie sons to utilize 11o case may be tormu.

ti 10 e 21v 1 ing one io'm' 11 ZJOEHUDS between We of the Lop, and no i, Luge OVQZlZtPPlZlg edg when he meetis utuizei, hues of gluing either aim bottom portion or ee -h In she drawings three spending; eiemenae are do eaters, Figai 1 i and 2 take:

apparatus ism ioeeteai: 'he "parts iilustm ieo section for the ewe o1 lush a longitudinal eeomonai we the euetii'ig-ofi zipper ,L-us: Figs" T respectiveiy a side elevation and plan "h N; of @he on. o3 rievi'e and If uns whereby the e A of the midi or W. poimay he varied: '3 l a udio il seeaion he .i eding. e pei'etoe and iii 3 S loh gmder, ieeciin means frees"? 163 ljiovifilgf pope? strip, the roll of inset end the glue distributer:

' and provider springs 27'.

Figs. 14, 1-5, 16 and 17 illustrate cross sectional views of the pad as it appears the several stages of folding during its progress through the apparatus: Fig l8 a view illustrating the lines of glue along the ends of the lower paper strip and the cross lines of glue hereinafter referred to: 19 and 20 are views in perspective of the two forms of finished pads. I

The filling material, which, herce er for the sakeoi' brevity" we will call excolsior, fed onto acontinuously moving conveyor 20 formed of plates extending laterally tnercof and linked. together in the nature of a chain with mitwardly extending teeth 21. The con veyer at each side carries a chain 22 whereby the con veycr is supported on. and driven by suitable sprockets 23 and 24; the sprockets 2 lheing the d riviu 5 sprockets While sprockets 23 are merely idlers. The excelsior by means of the teeth is carried -l onvard and below a grading or retarding cylinder 25, formed of circular dis rs 26, suitably spaced apart and mounted on a driving shaft. The'disks .26 lie between the rows of teeth 21 on the conveyer, and the cylinder formed oi the disks is yieldingly held toward the conveyor by mvs'w'w of A picker cylinder 28, formed in any suitable manner and provided with picker teeth 29 fitting between the rows of xtlle conveyor teeth, is mounted in. front of the inner end of the conveyer and is driven.

at a high rate of speed. The excelsior which is carried bythe conveyor pe t the grading cylinder s5 is'picked or knm (ed from the conveyer teeth by the picker cylinder and tells through a hopper 30 onto a continu .ously moving belt carrier 31, by means of which it is conveyedforward and deposited onto the continuously moving paper strip 32. The side walls at the lower or discl'iarge end of tl'iehopper stand apart a distance corre sponding; to the width oi. the excelsior whicl'i it desired to deposit on the paper. A roller 33, yielding-1y siu'iportcd above roller carrying the endless conveyor 31, comthe excolsior filling prior to its deivery onto the paper. The paper strip 32 derived from. a roll. 35 passes over idler rollers 36 and is pulled, i y means licroinaltm' described, toward the disrlurrging end of the apparatus. In its pas the paper is turned over or folded by visa s of a suitable nurrd'ier of lo'smcrs 3? and linally through a compressing former tulle lu the drau'iu r which the strip ut derived, is illustratml, but i; it is desired to use but one strip of paper this may be omit ted and the edges of lhc lower strip caused to overlap to form the euv lop or casing. The f n or from'ihe dclivpaper eerryin he exec. cry end of the hopper drawn hirward from 553 ssmeeso distance apart and carried on. a shaft 4.2

driven at the proper speed. Suitable scrapingr devices are employed for each glue dlstrihuting disk, and mounted upon the shaft -l2-liietvnseu the disks 4] is a glue distributing device 4-4:. This glue distributing device 44 is formed in the nature of a bent wire and causes a line of glue to occur across or laterrevolution of shaft 42, and this cross gluing is desirable when filling of short fiber is utilized, as it prevents the same from hunching in the wrapper and from falling out. The continu-v ous length oi glued and formed paper after passing through. the compressing former tube passes between two rollers 45 and 46-re 'spectlvcly. The upper or those rollers 1s yieldingly held toward the lower one by means of spring 101 and both are geared togethereud driven at the speed with which it desired to have the strip of paper move, that is, the peripheral speed of the rollers will correspond to the speed of travel of the paper. The continuous length of finished v ad after passingrollers 45 and 46 passes t rou h a cuttingoif device, hereinafter clescri ed, which during the cutting-oii process advances in the direction of travel of the pad and at the same speed as the pad.

Power derived from anysuitable source, such as an electric motor and transmitted through a belt 19 and pulley 50 mounted on the picker cylinder shaft drives the picker cylinder at the desired speed. 'llhe other end of the picker cylinder shaft carries a gear 51 moshing with the gear carried on a vertical shaft 53, which at its lower end has a gear 54 in mesh with a gear 55 on a horizonn tally disposed shaft 56. The friction Wheel 57 carried on a sleeve feathered on shaft 56 and shiftable thereon by means of a shifting lever 58, bears against the friction disk 59, the shaft of which carries a gear 60 in, mesh with the gear 61. Passing over a sprozivket 62, which is carried by the shaft which carrics gear 61, and over a sprocket 63 which is mounted on. a shaft 64 carrying the driving sprockets for the conveyor 30 is a driving chain. 65. Through this chain of gears and tho driving chain 6:) the motion conveyed to the convcycr 20 is reduced to that desired,

:siu: "ting lever 53; is carried on a rocker "The s} ii shalt {86 extending across the saclnne, and

. shy of the lower paper strip once in every inr cncu 'enient witu a clutch member is Q Q I:

the other end of rock shaft 58 carries e lever ti? slotted receive a pin which, by

, w rod 3 0, on extension ol which per i. outer end of the strait which supt e grading 7' A 71 this rod is pi. secured to one of bell crank 1ei-"er 12, t '1 Wl icli is' 'ieldiuglv held in position by means friction wheel 57 in Contact "with friction disk 59- W l be changed, and irefore the speed of tile-endless convcyer s0, whereby the thiclo uess the Dittl is regulated. The grading QYLAilEI 25, through the s; cy oi suite-ole flexible slisi't 93 sul' ole gears (not shown), its-driven l; is gear (not sliovn) carmod on the Slltfil Ol the member 24. The sluni't 5'5, lies one member 76 oi a lriction clutch device feathered to'it and this menib8?,;iilli'01lgl1 the agency of a sh .t ng lever 77 Wine-l1 is: ounterl on s shaft 14-0, and a hand lever 78, mounted on the same shaft, is co of lieingglrswn into and out of clutclu which is rctstebly or loosely mounted on the shaft 56 and which carries the "ear 55. When the member 76 is forced into cilutcliing contract with the member Ml, the slmtt 56 is driven by the pulley 50 through the genr 51 and 522, the shaft 53, the gears 54 and the m mber 141 and the member 7-5, which is 1', lie. ;l on the Whentiie .inber 76 is drawn out of Contact W1 tli the member 141, the meinbe' 141 and the gear 55 rotate freely on the shaft 56 end all the machine e'ot tlie piclrer c nder is stone Shaft ens cl eor 7:; and 80 d l is o shaft the ins-- 12. to cherg end cuttin grofi' device. iiollers and 34.

which are geared together at one end by means ofgesrs end 83 are driven at s peri llersl speed equal to the s eed of travel of t e paper strip through t c agency of gesrs 8% and 85 from shaft 81.- The tension, or more properly the slack, in the endless conveyer 20 is tslren up by means of it takeup device 86. The two glue distributing disks ell are driven from a pulley on the shaft which carries roller 36 by means of a crossed belt 87.

The rolls 35 em 39 are on rried-besupporting cones on. similar shafts 88. The centerirur orninementof the rolls is soi turn-cu file take-up device is conperetus,

complished by means of scrim" opersted shifting devices 80 and the resistance to un' Winding; of the rolls in curl; cast secured by. means iii a. friction bend 0t surrounding ti cylindrical iemlier curries on the paper roll,

siiuit, end the tension of the friction is reguuse by means of screw 01.

The guide or former urine 3? are mounted upon blocks wliieli are slidoble laterally vi itliin ways 92 extending across the nuicliine, whereby. the props adjustment of said arms is attained and variable to suit different widths of pad manufactured. The former tube 38 is also adjustable laterally, and is held within former arms 37 adjustable as just described.

Rollers 45 end 46 which are geared togetlier by means of gears 94 and 95 are driven at the peripheral speed with wnicli it is desired to move the continuous length of pads through the apparatus and through the medium of suitable gears 97, S38 and 99. The contact of the upper roller with the top of the continuous length of pad regulelile by means of o, bolt for varying the terr.

sion of springs 101 winch. yieldingly force the upper of said rollers downwardly.

' The cutting-ell device comprises a suitable knife 102 mounted in a knife carrier 103 verticslly slidable on guide rods 104. The guide rods 10% are mounted in s frame 105 which is reciprocated on tour guide rods 106. The trustee 105, through means oi cranks 107, is given its reciprocating motion longitudinally of tliespporstus end at the same time the knife carrier is reciprocated vertically o l the inziclu'ne. The cranks 107 are carried, on the gears 108 which mesh With the gears 109. The gears 109 are carried on. the shaft 110. Feathered to the end of shaft llOlis ii can't 111 which is spring lield toward the knifelly means of a spring 112. The inner end. of coin member ll] carries one mernbar 113 of s as clutch; the other T1161 be: 114-. of the ow clutch iscsrxed'on s. sleeve 115 loosely mounted on shalt ill}; a Wheel lilo inc-slung with the Wheel 11? drives the sl on one end if of e llj' any d1 netcr or 'Wll Sleeve .1 it by means of s SLlltablG sprocket and clniinl is continuously rotated through a sprocket lfZl mounted on it short shaft 122 WlllCll carries a gcer 123 in mesh with the gear 124 on driving shaft 81.

Carried on the outer end of shaft 122 is a gear 125 meshing with an intermediate gear 126 carried on a swinging stud 127. The stud 127 is mounted in a support 128, which swings about shaft 122 as a pivot, and by means of loci-ring device 129 be locked in any desired position. to mesh with the gear 13- carried on e short she-ft journaled in suit-- to its shaft and the arrangement is such that gears of different diameters may be utilized in place of it for the purpose of chan ing the time of the cutting operation of the flrniie so that pads or Wrappers of diiierent lengths are formed. The gear 126 is mounted on the swinging support 28 so that gears of diflerent diameters may be used in place of 130.

Carried on the inner end of the shaft wliich carries gear 130 is a cam 131 and a pivoted lever'132 stands in the path of said cam.

The lower end of lever 132 is pivotally c0n.

nectedto a pin 133 and surrounding said pin and between the lower end of lever 132 and a guide 134 secured to the frame of the. apparatus is a spring 135 which tends to hold the upper 131. Vhen the lower. part of lever 132 and the pin secured thereto is moved toward guide 134 by means of cam 131, the outer end of pin. 133 is moved out of contact with cam 111, and the clutch member 113 is forced into contact with member 114 by means of s rin 112. Whenthe jaws 113 and 114 of t 163 clutch are in contact one with the other the shaft 110 is positively driver-i through lib I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is p 1. In a pad forming machine, a rotatable picker cylinder, an endless toothed conveyer operating in conjunction with said picker cylinder, means for conveying the picked material onto a moving paper stri a glue dis- 'tributing roller contacting witii said paper strip, means for cutting off the finished 2. In a pad forming machine, picker mech- 'anism means for continuously moving a strip of paper through the. machine, a conveyor for the fiiling material from the picker mech" anism. to the paper strip, a rotatable glue distributer, a vertically movable knife for severing thefinished pad from said moving strip and means for moving said knife in the direction of travel of said strip during the cutting operation.

3. In a pad forming machine, picker mech anism means for continuously moving a strip of paper through the machine, a conveyer for the filling material from the picker mech-- anism to the paper strip, a rotatable glue distributer, a vertically movable knife for sever- 2; ing the finished pad from said moving strip,

art of lever 132 in contact with cam belt provided. with pro ecting fn1gers,ayiel?.

' varying the s means for causing said knife duriiig the cutting operation to travel with said strip, and agents'whereby between the cutting operas tions said knife is retracted.

1. In a pad-formingmachine, an endless. fibrous material conve er providedwith fi n-' gers adapted to protrut e into the mass of inaterial, a regulating member above said con veyer and arli'acent to the discharge point thereof, a pic (er cylinder adjacent to said member, an endless conveyor or apron for picked material, and mechanism for forming a case around the picked material.

5. In a pad-forming machine, a icker'cylinder, an endless fibrous material eedj apron provided with projecting fingers and a disked regulating member intermeshing withsaid 6. In a pad-formin machine, arotata'ble.

picker cylinder, an en ess conveyor provided 1 35 with projecting fingers, and leadingto said cylinder, for conveyin fibrous material to, said cylinder, a rotatab emeinber yieldin ly supported above said conveyer'for holding the material in contact therewith while being be picked, cover forming mechanism, and means 3 j or conveying the picked material tosaidmechanism.

7. In a pad-forming machinea feed belt for carrying fibrous material, fingers proiect ing from said belt into the material and rotatable means above said belt for yieldingly retarding the action of the belt. .8. In a, ad-forlninr machine, a toothed carrying belt, a dished member cooperating therewith, a picker cylinderadjacent t discharge point of the belt, and 12168;)! variably controlling the speed of said derindependently of the speed of the belt.

9. In a pad-forming machine, a carry/i ingly mounted dished drum cooperati; therewith, a picker cylinder, and means i":

peed of said cylinderandbsaic belt independently. 10. In a pad-forming machine, a carding device com rising a rotatable yieldiriglyf mounted dis red member in an endless toothed belt, the teeth oi which intcrmesh with the disks of said member, a rotatz'ible i'ck or, means for driving said picker indepen ent the belt, envelop-forming devices, and means for conveying carded material to said devices.

11. In a )il-(i forming machine, in cornbienation, a belt for conveying fibrous material fingers projecting from said belt into fibrous material, a picker cylinder cooperat ing therewith and means 'for varying the speed of said belt. i

12. in a )ad forming machine, 'ineombt' nation, a belt; for carrying fibrous'majteriaha picker cylinder ccoperatingjwith s'aid'belt and means, dependent on the amount of material carried bv said belt, l'or'governingthe speed of the belt. i i

cut means for continuously moving a strip of ently of the speed of said picker cylinder, means for continuously moving a strip of paper through the machine, means for con veying the picked filling material from said picker cylinder to the strip of ,paper, a rotatable glue distributer for distributing glue along the edges of the paper, means for folding said paper to inclose said filling material, means, comprising a vertically movable knife, for severing the finished pad from the moving strip, and means for moving said knife in the direction of travel of the strip during the cutting operation.

, 31. In a pad forming machine, a filling material conveyer, a rotatable picker 'cylin der operating to receive the material from said conveyer, a driving shaft for said eon- .veyer and said picker cylinder, a speed changing device-between said shaft and said conveyor, means, dependent on the amount varying the speed of said conveyer independ- ,y of the speed of the picker cylinder,

of material carried by said conveyer, for

paper throughthc machine, means for con-- veying the picked filling material from said picker cylinder to the moving strip, a rotatable glue distributer for distributing glue along the edges of the moving forming devices for folding the paper \ttclose the filling material, and means'ior severingthe finished pad from the moving 2.111 a pad formin machine, a i ng material conveyer, a pic cylinder operat ing in conjunction therew 1th, means dependent on the amount of material carried ysaid conveyer for varying the speed there-v 0 independently of said picker cylinder,

- means for continuously moving a strip of paper through the machine, means for conyeying picked mater al from said picker 0 *L under to said'strip of paper,'a rotatable g ue distributing device for distributing glue along the edges of said strip and at intervals across said strip means for folding the paper to inclose said material, rollers for compress ing the formed ad, and means for severing j the finished pa, iromithe moving strip.

$3. In a pad forming machine, a toothed filling material'conveyer, apicker cylinder operating in conjunction therewith and re ceiv'ing the material therefrom, a dished member yieldmgly held toward said conveyer for varying the s eed thereof indeendently of the speed 0 said picker cylin-' Jer',-'means for continuotisly moving a strip 3 1 I oi paper through the machine, an endless fconveyer for delivering the picked. material strip, envelop semen from said 1 icker cylinder to the moving strip, a rotatah e glue distributing devise for dis tributing glue along the edges of the strip and z'ttintervals across the same, means for folding the paper to inclose the filling material, rollers for compressing the formed pad, and means for severing the finished pad from the moving strip.

34. in a pad forming machine, a toothed conveyer, a picker cylinder operating in conjunction therewith, means, held. yieldingly toward said conveyer, for varying the speed thereof independei'itly of the speed of picker cylinder, ,means for continuously moving a strip of paper through themachine, an endless convcyer for deli vering' filling material from said picker cylinder to said strip, a rotatable glue distribut-er for do livering. glue along the edges of the strip and at intervalsacross the same, means for tolding the paper to inclose the filling material,

and means for severing the finished pad from material and for compressing the same, and

means for severing the finished pad from the moving strip.

Qn a pad lorming machine,-"an endless conveyor, a regulating member above said conveyer and adjacent to the discharge point thereof, a picker cylinder adjacent to said member, means for continuously movmg a strip of naperthrough the machine, an endless belt or delivering the picked material from said cylinder to said moving strip, means for distributin glue along the, stri of paper, means for folr ing the paper to inciose the picked material, and means for severing the finished pads from the moving strrp, In testimony whereof, I have hereunto subscribed ber, 1904.

my name this 20th day oi Decem .l

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